The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-06-30
GENERAL NEWS NoTEs.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
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Chicago water department.. l.. G. Pope,
tho collector, is short SO, 900 or $4,000,
Mr. Parnell does not improve IN health,
and 1t Is now said that he is suffering from
cancer of the stomach
Maxwell, the murderer of Charles a.
Preller, will tread the murderers usual way
to glory on the 18th August
Adiutant General Drum, who has raised
such u bobbery about the flag, was Blaine
man in 1884.
The sponge catch in Florida thus far is
failure, the vessels not having made enough
to pay their provision bills.
Gs.,The second Chamber of the Dict of Hessc
has passed the ecclesiastical bill, settling
the conflict between Hesse and the Vatican
Colonel Lamont has gone to New York
for few days on q visit which mystifies
the politicians at both ends of his journey
Asia Minor is threatened with famine
and the Sultan is considering how to rem
cdy the trouble.
The barge Walters was sunk in Lake
Erie on Monday evening. She was struck
by squall. Eight lives were lost.
ii. Sloan e. Sons, cotton brokers of Phil
adelphia, who have suspended payment,
expect to make a statement to their credit
ors in few days.
DOhJ' ". AiuOll duu II IulClS Is. Arnold,
composing the firm of Arnold e Co.. deal
ers in coffee, Wall street, have assigned to
Welcome S. Jarvis.
Henry Doelitch, a German butcher who
murdered Frank NIcidcl, was captured ut
Elgin, Ill, Monday, and soon afterwards
committed suicide.
BY an explosion of fire damp Monday,
III new railway tunnel in the Department
OF Hautes Alps 10 Italian laborers were
killed and 35 injured.
D. w: Longlcy, Attorney General Of No
va Scotia, is an ardent advocate of com
merclal union of the Dominion and the
United States.
EX-United States Treasurer Jordan has
been presented with handsome silver
punch bowl by the employees of the Treas
ury Department.
Mayor Hewitt is charged with having
presidential bee in his bonnet If he would
make as good Il president as he has u mayor
the bee should be encouraged.
Sarah Bcrnhardt is said to have had suf-
hclent faith i'll the future Of Chicago to in
vest $lS, 800 in real estate in that city
during her recent engagement there.
A Washington millncr has successfully
introduced new style of summer hat,
which she has named Dorothy Whitney in
Congressman Tom Reed, of Maine. has
gone to Alaskato spend the summer Maine
has no charms for Reed when lis boss,
Blaine, is not at home
Republican newspapers arc glccful over
tho honOrS paid to Mr.. Blaine in London.
Compared to Buffalo Bill, Mr.. Blaine is a
small potato i'll the eye of the British nation
The New York Commercial Advertiser
advises the members Of the tifticth congress
to study public questions before they assem-
blein Washington next December
During thunder storm in Sumter coun
tV on Monday, a negro was killed by light
nlng. Two mules were killed at the same
time and place.
w. w. CorCOran has so far recovered
from his recent attack of paralysis that he
has been taken 10 Deer Park, Md, to spcnd
the heated term.
Blacllwood, the Georgia forgcr, was sen
fenced to nine years at hard labor in the
penitcntiary. lie had pleaded guilty to
three indictments for forgery.
Broker kcrShaw, who engineered one end
OF the corner in wheat, has gone to the wall
for certain, II. Is. Wcarc having been ap-
pointed receiver under bond.
Port Lovctt, who attempted to outrage n
lady at Villa RiCa, Ca, WAS taken from
Jail Wednesday night by II party Of men
and has not been heard Of since.
A report is currcnt that NJ StaulolT, one
of the Regents and NJ. ZivakOtI, President
of the Sobranjc, Bulgaria, have been seized
by conspirators.
The Chicago express over the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad was wrecked near Oak
land, Md, on Wednesday morning. One
tramp was killed, and six other persons
were wounded.
A heavy storm visited Lynchbu:g. Va,
on Tuesday night, blowing down shade
trees and fencing, and doing other damage.
The damage in the country is thought to
be heavy.
The anti-Bccchcr faction in Plymouth
Church pronounce the rumor that Mrs.
Stoves son IS to succeed Mr. Beechcr "a
delightful little bit of rot" whatever that
may be.
The Queens jubilee is pronounced bv
,he English press to have been grand sue
cess. Among the presents she received
was purse of ,e75, 000 subscribed by three
million women.
John Sugland, on trial for the murder
Of Helen a. Burst, whose body was found
in the Connecticut river Sunday, committed
suicide by hanging in his cell at Brattlc-
boro, VI, Thursday afternoon.
DR.. Hamilton denies the statements that
the government officials in the fever dis
tricts have deserted their posts, and says
that none of them are absent cXccpt the
postmaster and naval paymastcr who were
ordered away.
Mr.. Lewis Morris, the assistant poet lau-
rcate for the jubilee occasion, is the author
Of the Epic Of Iadcs." He owes his clc-
walton to the partiality of the Prince of
Wales.
The Earl Of Aberdeen addressed the
Young Mems Christian Association of San
Francisco during his visit to that city. His
lordship is described rs a tall slender man,
with full dark beard and moustachc
While Johh S. Wise is making his fourth
OF July speech at Philadelphia, Fitzhugh
Lee, who beat him for governor Of Virginia,
will be delivering the independence day
Grafton before Tammany in New York.
Miss Grace Studcbaker daughter of the
famous wagon maker of South Bend, Ind,
was married The other day. Nature gave
her beauty and her father gave her GJOO 600